This Day Is Amazing And So Are You

Some of them went quietly, some of them did not. 

"I've been telling you for years it's a dying world, you might start believing me now," his demented mother said, the most common thing she had said to him in the six months prior to her entering a nursing home. 

On the opposite side of the valley ships came and went in a futuristic aerodrome, a piece of the future superimposed on green pastures, or just another figment of a hyper-active imagination lodged into the lattice, the neural network that gave out and recovered. A figment perhaps, but a real enough one, the future breaking into the present, the voice beyond all voices, we were here now, we were helping you, they saw, they conquered, they sneered, they looked up at the chain of command of their own bosses and realised that they, too, were trapped in a madness. That this future, this present, this narrow story in so many stories, the rise and fall of dynasties and civilisations, was subject to a different sense of time. 

The spatial distortions were well and truly back. 

Sometimes, often now, there was a compelling sense of urgency, although he didn't understand it. 

That futuristic airport. It was as if he knew the workers and the pilots, the purpose of it all. 

But they were from a different species. They were from a different time. Their sense of time was different to ours. What seemed important, or had seemed important, the saving of democracy, the restoration of faith in government, the cohesiveness of the population, all ripped asunder as the left ate itself and the right fell over themselves to subside, and the politics of the country, a rotting carcass fed on by leeches and wolves, jackals and succubus, was now perilously falling through a tunnel into the future. And all our ministrations, all our concerns, all our attempts to save the heart of a nation already lost, would, in a sense, come to nought. 

For all was an eternal present and all was already forgotten. 

Because when you reach these time spans nothing in an organic's life can ever seem important, not on the grand scale of things. 

The nation was wrapped in scandal and naval gazing and its own terrible self destruction. 

And as for Old Alex, every day begins anew.

HEADLINES:

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews taken to hospital after ‘nasty fall’

Premier Daniel Andrews suffered a “nasty fall” at his home while getting ready for work on Tuesday and has been taken to hospital for precautionary X-rays.

Mr Andrews did not injure his head, according to a government spokesman, but the Premier was not at work today as his government announced an inquiry into Indigenous disadvantage.

He was replaced at the announcement by Deputy Premier James Merlino, who acknowledged Mr Andrews’ absence at the start of the press conference and said the Premier had suffered a “nasty fall” at home.

“As you all know, he took a fall this morning as he was preparing for work. He’s in hospital as a precaution, getting some precautionary X-rays,” Mr Merlino said.

“No head injuries, he’s fine and he’ll be back on his feet very shortly.”

Harry and Meghan's interview was like 'watching the Real Housewives of LA'

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Royal commentator Annabelle Sanderson says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie not receiving a royal title has “absolutely nothing to do” with the colour of his skin. During the interview, Ms Markle said she was told when pregnant with her son he would not be granted a title and concerns within the Royal Family were allegedly raised over the colour of Archie’s skin. “It had absolutely nothing to do with the colour of Archie’s skin, it’s actually down to protocol by George V that only the children and grandchildren of the reigning monarch get a title,” Ms Sanderson told Sky News.

Porter won’t return for parliament: PM

Scott Morrison is unconcerned that two of his cabinet’s critical national security committee members are currently on medical leave.

Unemployed Australians have warned a parliamentary inquiry examining the Morrison government’s jobseeker bill that the end of Covid-boosted welfare payments will plunge them further into poverty.

Guardian Australia revealed last month the government plans to lift the base rate of jobseeker, parenting and student payments by $50 a fortnight, or $3.57 a day, but the change is seen by many as a cut because a $150 coronavirus supplement will be scrapped at the end of March.

A Senate inquiry, which will hold hearings on Tuesday, has received more than 500 submissions, including dozens of personal pleas from welfare recipients who will be affected by the bill, including one as young as 16.